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The 2024 United States Senate election in Texas was held on November 5, 2024, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Texas. Republican incumbent Ted Cruz won re-election to a third term, defeating Democratic challenger and U.S. Representative Colin Allred.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is leading Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas) in the Texas Senate race by 2 points in a new survey as Election Day looms. The poll, released Tuesday by The University of Texas at ...
Cruz served as the solicitor general of Texas before being elected to the United States Senate in 2012. Apart from his duties in the Senate, Cruz also unsuccessfully ran for president in the 2016 ...
The latest numbers build on earlier polls, which likewise show Allred mere points behind Cruz, who is seeking his third term in the Senate after nearly falling to Beto O'Rourke in 2018.
Republicans have held a majority in the Texas Senate since January 14, 1997, as a result of the 1996 elections. Republicans won eight of the fifteen seats up for election, flipping one from the Democrats. Due to the high number of uncontested seats, however, Democratic candidates received more votes statewide than Republican candidates.
With less than a week to go before the Nov. 5 General Election, polls show incumbent Republican Sen. Ted Cruz maintaining a razor-thin lead over his Democratic challenger, U.S. Rep. Colin Allred ...
Texas's location in the American South and largely in the greater Bible Belt has given the Republican Party the upper hand in the state in recent decades. [89] Trump received the most raw votes for a political candidate ever in Texas, breaking his own record from 2020 by over 500,000. The Democratic vote total fell by 425,000 between 2020 and 2024.
Payne, fond of saying his first vote was for Democrat George McGovern against Richard Nixon in the 1972 presidential election, is apprehensive about the Senate race.